Collection documents individual performers and minstrel show companies, including touring companies and contains material on Daily Paskman's Radio Minstrels.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Consists of materials that are primarily visual in nature and portray approximately 1,700 musicians and musical groups, including Billy Carlin, Paul Whiteman, Anne Shirley, the WIOD Orchestra, Rudy Vallee and Eddie Cantor.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers and audio tapes relating to Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. Tapes (approximately 500 10" reels) include a complete set of tapes for Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend, including the Toscanini Centennial Series, 1961-1967, interview tapes recorded for the show and tapes of a few rehearsals. Papers include guest lists, scripts, correspondence, station lists, publicity materials, etc. Gillis was a producer at NBC during the Toscanini era.
Repository/Collector:
University of North Texas Music Library, University of North Texas
Contains papers documenting Cronkite's career as a United Press wire reporter and war correspondent before joining CBS in 1950. A second collection, "CBS Evening News Archive, 1962-1981," documents Cronkite's television program.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes manuscripts for two radio plays: "Three Outcasts," which dramatizes the stereotypes found in children's rhyme and "The Circular Road," which explores a child's bereavement in the Jewish-Irish community. Names of programs on which the plays were broadcast is not shown.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Over 250 16-inch broadcast transcriptions dated from July of 1941 through February of 1950, divided more or less evenly between news material (principally from the NBC "Blue" network) and "classical" music: largely orchestral music, with some opera selections.
Papers document Dujardin's career as a novelist, poet, playwright, publicist, journalist and history of religion professor and includes material relating to his radio broadcasts, 1936-1939, and his radio plays.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers documenting Faulk's career as a folklorist, entertainer, author and target of the blacklist during the McCarthy years. The collection includes extensive files relating to Faulk's blacklisting experience and his legal case that interrupted his burgeoning career in radio and television broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers trace Fernandez's career from her early days in radio to her work in television and movie productions, through to her retirement in 1982 and subsequent activities. The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, honors and awards, the bulk of which are in the form of plaques.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Special Collections, University of Texas-San Antonio
Includes correspondence, scripts (also synopses and story outlines), photographs, music, clippings, legal and financial records and audio recordings which document Swanson's radio appearances, 1927-1981. The types of programs include interviews, radio plays, serials, patriotic appeals during World War II, commercials and talk shows. Includes material on The Gloria Swanson Show, 1950-1951 the Lux Radio Theatre version of "Sunset Boulevard," 1951 and other programs. See detailed list in finding aid. Note: The papers are divided into separate collections, each with its own finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains 135 transcripts of broadcasts made by the Governor, 1939-1941, most of which were regular weekly Sunday morning half hour programs and some special events. Weekly programs were usually religion based and family oriented although he also discussed legislative and social issues. Also includes some papers relating to the broadcasts.
Includes transcription discs of the radio series begun in 1945 and sponsored by Texas Gulf Sulphur. It was on one of these broadcasts that Van Cliburn made his debut at age 12. An annotated chronological list is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Contains manuscripts of radio lectures on mathematics, mathematicians and the solar system by Kent and others which were aired on WTAW, College Station, TX, 1945-1950.
Radio program Latino USA began production by KUT and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. In 2010 production moved to the Futuro Media Group. Still produced by Maria Hinojosa and aired on NPR today, Latino USA presents stories on Latina/o history, culture, and current affairs.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
410 audio cassettes, 331 compact discs, and 133 Audio Files, plus unprocessed materials.
Contains papers, audio and video materials reflecting Mickelson's career as a broadcast executive, including nearly 20 years with CBS beginning in 1943.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains virtually complete documentation of her professional writing career, including radio plays, 1922-1947, and a transcript of a radio talk, 1947. See online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers documenting Trout's career as a radio and television news broadcaster, 1931-1992. The "Broadcasting Files, bulk 1931-1974," include material relating to Trout's career with CBS, NBC, ABC, WSJV, WCBS and National Public Radio. Includes material relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt, political conventions, presidential elections, fireside chats, D-Day, World War II-European theater, United Nations, Dwight D. Eisenhower, King George, Queen Elizabeth and the following programs: Perspectives, Political Broadcasts, World News Round-Up, Professor Quiz and Who Said That?
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin